Craig Taylor

Morocco formally announces its wish to rejoin the African Union, 32 years after leaving over a dispute about Western Sahara.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto apologises for a scandal involving his wife’s purchase of a $ 7m house from a government contractor.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A flag of so-called Islamic State is found in the room of an Afghan refugee accused of carrying out an axe attack on a German train, officials say.
BBC News – Europe

The Commons votes by 472 votes to 117 to renew the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons programme, with 140 Labour MPs going against Jeremy Corbyn to support the government.
BBC News – UK

Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, takes centre stage at the Republican Convention but faces accusations of plagiarising a speech by Michelle Obama.
BBC News – US & Canada

Almost a quarter of a million children in parts of Nigeria’s Borno state formerly controlled by Boko Haram are severely malnourished, the UN children’s agency says.
BBC News – Africa

The A’s had a lefty on the mound through a good chunk of Sunday’s game against the Blue Jays at the Coliseum — it just wasn’t the one they planned.
OAK Homepage News

The vote to leave the European Union will have a “horrible” impact on the UK economy, which could “judder to a halt”, a leading fund manager warns.
BBC News – Business

A court in Bahrain orders the Sunni Muslim-ruled country’s leading Shia opposition, Wefaq, dissolved and its assets seized, reports say.
BBC News – Middle East

Venezuela opens its border with Colombia for the second time this month to allow people to cross over to shop for foods and medicines.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Arrests in Turkey after Friday’s failed coup rise to around 6,000, as President Erdogan vows to cleanse state bodies of the “virus” that caused it.
BBC News – Europe

Five people have been seriously injured in a helicopter crash at an airfield in Breighton, East Yorkshire, police say.
BBC News – UK

Three US police officers have been killed and three injured in a shooting in the southern city of Baton Rouge, officials say.
BBC News – US & Canada

The word “fire” was heard on the cockpit voice recorder of an EgyptAir flight that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea in May, investigators say.
BBC News – Africa

Khris Davis belted a pair of homers, Ryon Healy hit his first and Sonny Gray won for the first time in nearly three months on Saturday, as the A’s hung on to beat the Blue Jays, 5-4, at the Coliseum.
OAK Homepage News

Stephen Vogt drove in two crucial runs, including the go-ahead RBI single in the seventh, to help the A’s rally for an 8-7 win over the Blue Jays on Friday night at the Coliseum.
OAK Homepage News

Downsizing your home to give yourself an income in retirement is unrealistic, according to the former pensions minister, Steve Webb.
BBC News – Business

Five people are in custody suspected of links to the man who killed 84 people in Nice, prosecutors say, as IS claims he was one of its followers.
BBC News – Middle East

The Brazilian government reviews security measures ahead of next month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in the wake of the Nice attack.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Some 2,800 soldiers, including high-ranking officers, are arrested over an attempted coup that has led to the deaths of 161 people, says Turkey’s prime minister.
BBC News – Europe